The great Easter egg hunt?

We've had afewguesses on some of the story's Easter eggs in the comments, but I want to see how well you can do when you actually try. So we're going to have a little contest! Here's how it will work:

1. You'll attempt to figure out the references from the songs posted online so far, with the hints below.

2. When you've got it all figured out, join the Discord and go tothe-great-easter-egg-huntchannel.

3. Create a thread and post your answers. Your thread will be private, so only you and I can see it and no one can copy your answers.

4. The contest will be open forone week(until 5pm PST Feb 1st). Whoever gets the most right answers will winone month of free Patreon access (worth $10)!And I'll post the winners name in an author note so you can prove that you are the bestest. In case of any ties, whoever submitted their response first will be the winner.

5. I can't stop you from using AI, but I can tell you that in my testing both Gemini and ChatGPT failed miserably, so it probably won't help you much.

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THE CHALLENGE:There are nine possible references to guess (there are actually more if you go really deep, but we'll stick with nine). To make this semi-possible, I'm giving some hints along with the songs to pick from. Let's see what you've got!

Song List

Hints

Just Wandering Into Your Heart

Three Empty Leashes

Four Miles to Go

I Fucked a Dryad

The Ballad of the Black Razor

Patriotic American System, Triumphant

P.A.S.T.

Glory Ain't Knocking

Rise and Roar

Hushed Whispers

Is It War?

Simon Says Die

Three references to popular web serials (one of which you can find on RR)

Two references to video games

Three references to movies (covered by just two songs!)

And one famous band

Of course, if you try hard enough, you (or your friendly neighborhood AI) will come up with some plausible references that I didn't intend. Those won't count, sorry. For the purposes of this contest, there is only one set of right answers to get all nine points!

Submit your list of the eight song titles along with what each one is referencing (the actual reference, not just the category) on Discord,notin the comments (otherwise everyone will see it and it will be a very sad contest). One entry per reader! Youdon'tneed to listen to the lyrics of the songs for this contest, but the album art does help with a couple of them. To see all my posted songs with the album art, go here or search for AzureInk on your favorite streaming service.